Swimming With Sharks
June 30, 2025
Wading in the creek behind University of Delaware’s The College School, elementary students laughed and cheered as they met a challenge their teacher Laurie Drumm posed only a few months prior: build a robot that travels through water, mimics the characteristics of underwater animals and doesn’t scare the other fish. Through …
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Research Spotlight: Eric Layland
June 26, 2025
For many communities across the nation, Pride Month is a time to celebrate the challenges that LGBTQ+ people have faced and overcome. But the month of June also reminds parents, educators and human service professionals that LGBTQ+ individuals continue to grapple with the mental health effects of social stigma, especially …
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Catching Zzz
June 23, 2025
As a teenager at boarding school in China, Xiaopeng Ji remembers lying awake in her bed at night, staring at the ceiling for hours after lights out at 9 p.m. “I wasn’t a good sleeper, and I always thought it was all my fault,” she recalled. Years later, during her doctoral studies, …
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Championing student speech
June 17, 2025
For University of Delaware alumnus Jon Tressler, the inspiration behind his career as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) has always been close to home — his younger sister, Hannah. Hannah has Down syndrome, but it’s never defined her. Self-determination and love from family and friends helped Hannah reach her goals, but …
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Pathway to leadership
June 11, 2025
Faculty at the University of Delaware are accustomed to leading class lectures and research labs — but recently 16 of them were back in the classroom as participants in the Presidential Academic Leadership Program, a new initiative designed to equip them with the foundational knowledge, tools and perspective shifts needed …
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Inspiring the next generation
June 10, 2025
The daughter of a Guyanese immigrant and a mother who “believed in the magic of school,” University of Delaware alumna Maria D’Aguiar Cobb grew up knowing education could change lives. Now a third grade gifted services teacher at Mount Pleasant Elementary School in Wilmington and a recipient of the Presidential Award …
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Showing Students They Matter
May 30, 2025
For University of Delaware alum Camila Polanco, EHD25, school was one of the first places where she learned how much it matters to feel seen, heard and valued—not only as a student, but as a whole person. After graduating this May, Polanco now hopes to use her dissertation work to …
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Research Spotlight: Steve Amendum
May 30, 2025
Multilingual learners (ML), or children whose home language is not English, make up about 15% of all kindergarten and first grade students in U.S. public schools. Yet, many teachers receive little preparation in ML instruction, and many feel unprepared to support their ML’s languages, cultures and immigration experiences. To support …
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Launching engaged citizens
May 30, 2025
Jasmin Bioteau attended her first University of Delaware classes virtually from home. Since then, Bioteau has built houses in Georgetown, Delaware, tutored elementary school students in reading in Baltimore, and helped farmers and restored rainforest in Puerto Rico. Bioteau, a senior honors chemistry and Spanish double major from Glenside, Pennsylvania, …
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Convocation 2025
May 29, 2025
On May 22, 2025, the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) celebrated 518 degree candidates in the fields of education and human development at its Convocation ceremony at UD’s Field House. The ceremony recognized the participants of the Career and Life Studies Certificate (CLSC) program as …
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Teaching with impact, advising with purpose
May 29, 2025
Four members of the University of Delaware faculty were recognized for outstanding work in teaching and four for excellence in advising and mentoring. Additionally, two graduate students were also honored for excellence in teaching. The awards were presented at the May 13 Faculty Senate meeting. The teaching and advising awards …
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Celebrating UD’s newest doctors
May 28, 2025
Alexis Omar’s father, aunt and grandfather all earned University of Delaware degrees, so Blue Hen pride was instilled in her at a young age and reinforced throughout her youth. Visits to relatives in the First State from her home in Allentown, Pennsylvania, often prompted her dad to make a pit …
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